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Also, if your sister has an Intel Mac instead of an M1 Mac, I highly suggest VirtualBox and setting up something like Windows XP on that instead of Windows 11-- the steps will be pretty similar, and VirtualBox is free. Source: 7 months ago
I am unable to reach any page within the virtualbox.org domain including forums, but I can't find any post online about others having this issue. Is there a known problem at virtualbox.org or should I look locally? I usually get the error 502 - Bad Gateway. Source: 7 months ago
Some of these tools include Oracle VM VirtualBox (that I've used since before the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle), VMWare Workstation Player, and QEMU, but last year, I found out about Multipass. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago
You can use a Mac, then use Parallels or Virtual Box for any virtual machines you might need(I prefer Parallels). There are Educational versions of Windows amongst other Microsoft products available to you through NJIT. Source: about 1 year ago
I thought Debian doesn't have VB packages? Or are you the talking about the ones from http://virtualbox.org web site? Source: about 1 year ago
How does it compare to Runit[[0] used by Void Linux? [0]http://smarden.org/runit/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Still, I can try to give you a rundown of Runit. Essentially, it's an init system that uses init scripts, but it has a bit more structure to improve on the shortcomings of sysvinit. Much like systemd, it also does service management, although in a much less involved way. Like with sysvinit, the task of logging is left to a separate process, though it has its own logging daemon, if you wish to use it (as logging... Source: over 1 year ago
PID 1 is special. It's the init. Instead of System V init, you can use OpenRC, runit, systemd, s6, or others. Source: over 2 years ago
Of course the original creator's document is great too: runit - a UNIX init scheme with service supervision. Source: about 3 years ago
I learned about it here. http://smarden.org/runit/ It is not long read. Source: about 3 years ago
VMware Workstation - VMware Workstation is a multiple operating system handler to easily evaluate the any other type of new operating systems.
systemd - systemd is a replacement for the init daemon for Linux (either System V or BSD-style).
QEMU - QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that...
sysvinit - Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of free software, both GNU and non-GNU.
Proxmox VE - Proxmox is an open-source server virtualization management solution that offers the ability to manage virtual server technology with the Linux OpenVZ and KVM technology.
s6 - s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed for process supervision. It can be used as an init system, or as separate supervision components.